Sunday, October 4, 2009

Even the Audience Looked Bad

Fred Astaire & Ginger RogersImage by madrileno80 [¯Ô¯] via Flickr

If a loan is made for a moving picture, the president of the bank wants to write the story for you. The directors want to know who the leading lady is, and if they could, they would keep her as collateral. – Will Rogers

Each dance ought to spring somehow out of character or situation, otherwise it is simply a vaudeville act. – Fred Astaire

It was the kind of flop that made even the audience look bad. – Fred Astaire

About Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
She gave him sex and he gave her class. – Katharine Hepburn

Fred Astaire can dance a very intricate outline, and he makes it look so simple and easy. It gives the audience a sense of self-identification and a feeling that they, too, can do it. – Hermes Pan

The joy of my kind of dancing is that you never forget it’s an eternal fertility right. – Gene Kelly

A choreographer takes an idea out of his head and transposes it on people’s anatomy. – Gene Kelly




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